Confused and frustrated, Jenny hung up. When her brother Benny asked what was wrong, she told him, "They went through all the languages, and all except English had a number. For English I was asked to press octothorpe!"

Benny smiled and enlightened his sister. Jenny grinned from ear to ear and called back. This time, she got to the English section of the phone tree. What key or series of keys did she press?

Answer

The pound (#) key. This is also less commonly known as the octothorpe.Hide

I knew what octo was, but no thorpe, so I went to dictionary.com. What the heck does and athlete or science have to do with a phone? If you were here at the time you would've seen me frantically clicking "show answer". But I stilled liked the teaser, new trivia I can stump people with, muhahaha!